Patrick Ferguson

Since joining Kirkland, Patrick has been involved in the following matters:

• Numerous large independent power producers in solar, wind, geothermal and energy storage contracts for new facilities in CAISO, WECC, ERCOT and MISO.
• Natural-gas power developers in co-located and data-center-dedicated power supply agreements in PJM and ERCOT.
• Data center developers in utility power-supply and related infrastructure arrangements for gigawatt-scale data centers in MISO, PJM, SPP and ERCOT.
• Natural-gas and renewable power developers in co-located power supply agreements for data centers in ERCOT in both investor-owned utility and electric cooperative territories.
• Independent power producers in wholesale energy, capacity and REC contracting from existing generation facilities.
• Data center developers in co-located power supply agreements for data-center developers in ERCOT in both investor-owned utility and electric-cooperative territories.
• Power and data-center developers in shared-facility arrangements for co-located power and data-center infrastructure in ERCOT, MISO and SPP.
• Energy management agreements and related services agreements for co-locating power and data center developments.
• Data center and power developers in negotiating retail-electric provider contracts in ERCOT.
• Power and data-center developers in negotiating utility sleeving arrangements for data centers.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Patrick was involved in the following matters:

• Wholesale power contracting for many GWs of energy, capacity and RECs across the United States in all ISO regions and many utility service territories.
• Power contracting to support behind the meter natural gas power plants in PJM to power hyper scale data center in Ohio.
• Development, power contracting and utility arrangements for front of the meter geothermal portfolio in WECC.
• Front of the meter PPAs, utility sleeves and related retail power arrangements for the sale of wind power for data centers in SPP and ERCOT.
• Power contracts for existing wind power facilities to co-locate energy storage and data center load behind the meter in ERCOT.
• Natural gas power contracts to support data center load in Oregon, Nevada and Arizona.
• Power contracting for cogeneration facilities in California and Arizona.
• Development of gas generation facilities to support co-located data centers in WECC.
• Development of gas + carbon capture facility in Wyoming to power data center load.
• Renewable contracts with Dominion Energy to support data centers in Northern Virginia.
• Utility tolling agreement to support development of new combined cycle project in West Virginia.
• Multiple GWs of solar and storage PPAs in CAISO, across from all major utilities and community choice aggregators.
• Solar and storage PPAs with DTE to power increased load due to data center development.
• Transmission Security Agreements with ComEd to support data center development in Ohio.
• Wholesale power purchase agreements for natural gas energy and capacity from California generating assets.
• Development support and regulatory assistance on the creation of the CAISO subscriber participating transmission owner (SPTO) to allow for the development of merchant transmission facilities in WECC.
• Voluntary carbon offset purchase and sale agreements for technology companies to support net zero pledges.
• Energy storage services agreement for behind the meter batteries to support utility load in Washington state.
• Energy as a service agreements to support the development of batteries at commercial and industrial facilities throughout California.
• Multiple GWs of Resource Adequacy (RA) contracts for sale of capacity from generation and storage assets to California load serving entities using EEI, WSPP and ISDA confirmations.
• Capacity agreements for sale of Zonal Resource Credits (ZRCs) from wind and storage assets in the MISO region.
• Revenue share agreement for energy storage resources in ERCOT.
• Power purchase agreements for sale of energy, capacity and RECs from California geothermal facilities.
• Solar and storage agreements for new development projects in ERCOT and SPP.
• Natural gas tolling agreement from combined cycle project in California.
• Tolling agreements for energy storage projects in Oregon, California and New Mexico.
• Electric service agreements for data center load in ERCOT.
• Renewable contracts for solar, wind and energy storage assets for sale to NV Energy.
• Solar and storage aggregation agreements for sale of behind the meter renewables and storage to Arizona utility.
• Energy management agreements for dispatch and market operation of energy storage projects in AESO, SPP, ERCOT and CAISO.
• Interconnection agreements and transmission plan deliverability agreements to support the allocation of deliverability to new assets in CAISO.
• Power purchase agreements for sale of wind power from wind facilities in Idaho and Wyoming.
• Power purchase agreements for sale of energy and capacity from solar projects in Pennsylvania.
• Capacity agreement for new energy storage resource to be located in Arizona.
• Capacity agreements for incremental energy storage resource additions in the CAISO region.

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